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Re: CHAT: I saw it! I saw it! I saw it!

From:Andrew Smith <hobbit@...>
Date:Friday, June 11, 1999, 11:12
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Ed Heil wrote:

> ObConLang: Honestly, sloppily put together as it seems to have been, > Huttese was one of the things that really made the movie for me. It > put a chink into one of those almost unavoidable but annoying things > that turn up in popular science fiction: the "everyone on every planet > speaks English" syndrome. >
Worse still: "everyone on every planet thinks like English speakers do". - andrew. Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All. - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.